Milford is a village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

of Witley and Milford south west of

Godalming Godalming ( ) is a market town and civil parish in southwest Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, at the confluence of the Rivers Wey and Ock. The civil parish covers and includes the settl ...

Surrey Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ...

, England. It was a small village in the early medieval period — it grew significantly after the building of the Portsmouth Direct Line which serves

Godalming railway station Godalming railway station is a stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line, down the line from . The station, opened in 1859 to replace one on a different site, is situated at the edge of the town of Godalming, Surrey. The main station building is a Gr ...

and its own minor stop railway station. The village, served by a wide array of shops and amenities, has to one side an all-directions junction of the A3, one of Britain's trunk roads. Nearby settlements are Eashing, Shackleford, Witley and

Elstead Elstead is a civil parish in Surrey, England with shops, houses and cottages spanning the north and south sides of the River Wey; development is concentrated on two roads that meet at a central green. It includes Pot Common its southern neighbou ...

, and the hamlets of Enton and Hydestile, all of which are in the

Borough of Waverley The Borough of Waverley is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. The borough contains the towns of Godalming, Farnham and Haslemere, as well as numerous villages, including the large village of Cranleigh, and s ...

. The west of the parish is in the

Surrey Hills AONB The Surrey Hills National Landscape is a National Landscape in Surrey, England. It comprises around one quarter of the land area of the county and principally covers parts of the North Downs and Greensand Ridge. It was designated as an Area ...

Transportation

Until the 1990s, the

A3 road The A3, known as the Portsmouth Road or London Road in sections, is a major road connecting the City of London and Portsmouth passing close to Kingston upon Thames, Guildford, Haslemere and Petersfield. For much of its length, it is classifie ...

ran through the edge of village (it now bypasses it to the west). Milford is still an important road junction, where the

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and

A286 road The A286 is an A class road in the south of England, from its northernmost point in Milford, Surrey, to Birdham, West Sussex. It passes through the market towns of Haslemere and Midhurst, and the cathedral city of Chichester. The road is m ...

s leave the A3 and run south to

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Milford railway station Milford railway station is a railway station serving the village of Milford in the English county of Surrey. It is a stop on the Portsmouth Direct Line, from . The station has two side platforms flanking a pair of tracks, with step free ac ...

is on the Portsmouth Direct Line between and .

Education

Milford has a primary school, Milford Infant School and a secondary school, Rodborough School.

Facilities

The Church of England Parish Church is St John the Evangelist, on Church Road. St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church is on Portsmouth Road, and Milford Baptist Church is on New Road. The village has a cricket green and a football pitch which is home to Milford & Witley Football Club and Milford Cricket Club, who have two teams who play in the Saturday I'Anson League. Here, the Burton Pavilion also hosts dance,

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and

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classes. Another green in the village, the Jubilee field, is used for village fêtes and travelling funfairs and circuses. Milford also has Brownie and Guide Companies and Scouting troops. Milford also has a Bowling Green and club. Additionally, Milford is the home of Milford Pumas Youth Football Club, a community youth football club serving 7- to 17-year-old boys and girls. Milford Hospital is a former sanatorium that is now the rehabilitation centre for the Guildford and Waverley districts.

Notable residents

* James Archer, painter *

Philip Barker Webb Philip Barker Webb (10 July 1793 – 31 August 1854) was an English botanist. Life Webb was born to a wealthy, aristocratic family; his father was the lord of the manors of Witley and Milford, Surrey, Milford, in Surrey, England. Webb was ...

, botanist *

Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth (6 February 1873 – 8 August 1957), also known as Lady Wentworth, was a British hereditary peer, peeress, Arabian horse breeder and real tennis player. As the owner of the Crabbet Arabi ...

, peer, Arabian horse breeder and real tennis player *

Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton Neville Stephen Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton, (6 February 1879 – 9 February 1951), was a British military officer, Olympian and artist. Early life Neville Lytton was born in British India on 6 February 1879 while his parents served as vi ...

, military officer, Olympian and artist *

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, Conservative Member of Parliament * Virginia Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, Conservative peer and former

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* Sir George Deacon, oceanographer * Sir James Gault, military assistant to General

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during World War II * Mark Gravett,

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cricketer * Sir Laurence Guillemard, Governor of the Straits Settlements * Richard Harvey, Archdeacon of Halifax *

Francis Holl Francis Holl (23 March 1815 – 14 January 1884) was a British engraver. Life He was born 23 March 1815 in Camden Town, London, the fourth son of the prominent engraver William Holl the Elder (1771–1838), to whom he was apprentice ...

, engraver * Dame Penelope Keith, actress *

Robert Kinglake Robert Alexander Kinglake (9 June 1843 – 10 June 1915) was an English rower and barrister. Kinglake was born at Taunton. He was the second son of John Alexander Kinglake, MP for Rochester, and his wife Louisa Rebecca Liddon, daught ...

, rower and barrister * Mark Lambert, Harlequins rugby player * George Luker, painter *

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and

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footballer *

Humphry Osmond Humphry Fortescue Osmond (1 July 1917 – 6 February 2004) was an English psychiatrist who moved to Canada and later the United States. He is known for inventing the word '' psychedelic'' and for his research into interesting and useful applicat ...

, psychiatrist * Beresford Potter, Archdeacon in Cyprus and Syria * Nora S. Unwin, children's author and illustrator *

John Dawson Watson John Dawson Watson (20 May 1832 – 3 January 1892) was a British painter, watercolorist, and illustrator. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Sedbergh School and Manchester School of Design. His son was the Impressionist pa ...

, painter *

Bob Wyatt Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt (2 May 1901 – 20 April 1995) was an English cricketer who played for Warwickshire, Worcestershire and England in a career lasting nearly thirty years from 1923 to 1951. He was born at Milford Heath House in Surrey ...

, England cricketer

In popular culture

In 1970 the

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serial -

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was partly filmed at Milford Hospital. In the series it was called the Wenley Hospital. The actual filming took place in November 1969.Doctor Who Locations
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Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley ( ; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction novel, non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the ...

's book ''

Brave New World ''Brave New World'' is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hier ...

''.

References

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{{authority control Villages in Surrey Borough of Waverley